by Josephine Perry | Mar 5, 2022 | Book reviews
The genius of The Genius of Athletes is that it condenses tonnes of endurance sport psychology research into one place in a really handy toolkit to see what best practice we can take from the elites to put into our own sporting endeavours. The first five chapters...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 1, 2022 | Book reviews
I have never run an ultramarathon. I can very honestly say I will never run one either. But I have supported at many (my husband runs them) and I work with many ultrarunners on their mental preparation skills as a Sport Psychologist. It is a sport that is fascinating;...
by Josephine Perry | Mar 1, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
When I think of the sports that would be most likely to prompt a large dose of fear, Climbing is high (sorry!) up there; particularly the fear of falling or the fear I’d get myself into a position I couldn’t escape. I, like many others I suspect, watched Free Solo...
by Josephine Perry | Feb 28, 2022 | Improve, Performance Psychology
Lots of sport psychological research takes place in a fairly clinical environments – away from the cut and thrust of sport. It might take place in a lab (on treadmills, turbo trainers or basketball hoops) or by asking people to complete questionnaires or interviews....
by Josephine Perry | Feb 25, 2022 | Book reviews, Books
When I began my training as a psychologist my supervisor suggested that all sports psychs should attend a counselling course. It was enlightening. On our MSc we had been taught a couple of interventions but on this course we were taught not to intervene, not to...
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